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Rule Based Design Workshop & Symposium TU Berlin |
05.25-05.30.2009
Berlin (Germany)
Rule Based Design - Workshop & Symposium TU Berlin
The Rule Based Design Workshop & Symposium highlights contemporary academic and practice based research employing CAD, CAM, Coding/Web tools in addressing & communicating architectural design intents & constraints. The research spectrum ranges from theory to the digital crafting of buildings and their components.
The point of the new series of workshops at the TU Berlin School of Architecture is to introduce rule-based design strategies and CAD/CAM to the core design studio curriculum. These systems are an integral part in crafting today’s architecture. The workshops expose the students to the fundamental changes in the building industry and the greater Building Information Modeling (BIM) network.
The course serves three main purposes (1) to provide the students with foundations in computational logic, (2) to introduce the art of bespoke tool making via rule based design systems, new modes of operation and problem solving techniques, and (3) digital fabrication (rapid prototyping machineries) and their possible integration into the design & fabrication process.
Two intensive workshops grant students opportunities to interact with academic and professional practitioners on a common design problem. The research is disseminated and shared via a public online blog
allowing feedback from other design researchers around the globe and serves as a tool for internal communication between the faculty and students.
Core Teaching Staff:
A27, TU Berlin - School of Architecture
Christophe Barlieb, Sven Pfeiffer
Guest Tutors:
Martin Tamke, Adjunct Prof. CITA
Norbert Palz, PhD Fellow, CITA
Kristoffer Josefsson, PhD Fellow, TU Berlin
Ines Putz, Rapid Prototyping Lab, TU Berlin
Ben Jastram, UdK
Dimitrie Stefanescu, University of Bucharest
Schedule:
05.25
Teaching Staff & Tutor Meeting (14:00-17:00)
05.26-30
Introduction to Processing, Grasshopper (9:00-18:00)
05.27
Symposium (18:00-20:00) Party (20:00-23:00)
05.30
Review of Student Projects (10:00-15:00)
Location:
Technische Universität Berlin
Hauptgebäude, Geodätenstand 6 O.G.
Straße des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin
Task:
(05.26) The first day of the workshop explores Processing (Scripting & Outputting) and Grasshopper (Geometrical Relationships & Parameterization). The goal is to produce a series of individual hats (as in the fashion accessory used to protect, accentuate and or punctuate the human head) made from developable surfaces. The hat’s cutting paths are gathered at the end of the first day for laser cutting and redistributed to the students for folding and assembly.
The hats will be used during the symposium as a way to identify and communicate with the general public.
(05.27) The design challenge of creating an intervention for the TU Berlin School of Architecture’s main lobby is introduced. Ten teams (groups of two) are formed to produce an element made of developable surfaces. The function of the intervention is left to the team’s discretion; however we recommend keeping the function to a bare minimum i.e. a screen, a landscape, etc. The dimensions of the intervention should preferably not exceed 4m3.
Rules of the game:
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Only developable surfaces are acceptable!
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A parametric based geometry or framework should be considered.
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Components are parametric, simple and display richness when assembled.
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The choice of materials is critical as we do wish to build the project.
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Connection details do not need to be absolutely designed at this stage but consideration should be given to them.
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You are urged to save and plot all your designs to the laser cutter and assemble them so we can explore the design process.
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The tools are: Rhino3d/Grasshopper, Processing, the Laser cutter, and you are encouraged to develop your own tools with the aforementioned or external scripting languages!
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All your work is to be uploaded to the team’s blog on a daily basis.
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Please wear your hats on symposium day and any other day for that matter :))
(05.29-30) The designs are reviewed and the 2 most compelling designs are selected for further development over the course of the semester and in the 2nd upcoming workshop.
Symposium
(05.27) The symposium takes place on Tag Der Forschung of the TU Berlin’s School of Architecture at 18:00 in the Geodätenstand 6 O.G. TU Berlin Hauptgebäude, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin.
Flexibility in thought and expression is vital to all creative fields. The power of a new generation of parametric and bespoke CAD tools lies in the ability to negotiate and communicating the design intent clearly. This streamlining saves time, materials while integrating architecture, engineering and fabrication over the course of the entire architectural design process.
The symposium features research works by young contemporary academics in the fields of mathematics, architecture and fabrication.
Schedule:
Time
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Speaker
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Affliliation |
Theme |
| 18:00 |
Baurmann, Pfeiffer
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TU Berlin |
RBD Opening Statements |
| 18:05 |
Kristoffer Josefsson |
TU Berlin |
Mathematics in Architecture |
| 18:25 |
Dimitrie Stefanescu |
U.Bucharest |
Scripting Architecture |
| 18:45 |
Christophe Barlieb |
TU Berlin |
Integration of Engineering & Design |
| 19:05 |
Norbert Palz |
CITA |
Rapid Prototyping in Architecture |
| 19:25 |
Martin Tamke |
CITA |
Fabrication of Architecture |
| 19:45 |
Baurmann, Pfeiffer |
TU Berlin |
Discussion with Speakers & Public |
| 20:00 |
PARTY |
Posters:
We welcome posters (A1 vertical format) from academic and professional sources relevant to the aforementioned digital practice of architecture.
Please email them to c (at ) barlieb (dot) com by (05.25).
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